These discussion tend to distract from the purpose of the forum, which is to help each other with Xojo. The team has responded numerous times, and continuing to create new threads is unlikely to change their stance. I suggest contacting them directly because that’s what they’ve asked be done.
My intention is not to stifle useful conversation, but to steer users in to areas where they will be most likely to achieve their goal.
Attacking me for this will accomplish little.
Xojo Team Responses (among many others dating back years):
Real names were shown on the old forum. We were able to hide them when a user was logged out but that didn’t stop them from being shown if you were quoted. The page in which you enable forum access in your account settings states that real full names will be displayed both on the forum and the user list. Having said that, I can change anyone’s user name per their request - they can just contact me on the forum or write us at hello@xojo.com and we’ll take care of it ASAP.
Even esoTalk would sometimes show full names in quotes when not logged in. With that said, if anyone wants us to scrub old posts and quotes of their full names regardless of when they were posted, let us know and we’ll do that.
We understand the concerns. If you’d like to change your display name, please contact a forum moderator. We do ask you to follow guidelines, please see the example below:
Name: John Peter Smith
John_Smith (Default)
John_S
JohnS
Peter_Smith
Peter_S
PeterS
Forum moderators are:
@Anthony_Cyphers
@Gavin_Smith
@Dana_Brown
@Jason_Parsley
Forum access is not a requirement to use Xojo. Anyone who feels they can not represent themselves anonymously enough within our guidelines can choose to not participate on the forum. We are not legally bound to the GDPR as we are not a European-based company nor does the United States have an agreement with the EU in this matter.
Having said that, we have made significant efforts in several areas of our business to support the GDPR. On the forum, we give our EU users an option that does not pro…
As I mentioned we are not subject to the GDPR though we have gone to great lengths to respect it on behalf of our EU users. Having said that, despite the best intentions of the law, if it allows anonymity where anonymity is not required, it makes it quite easy for people to hide on the Internet, an issue that should be especially of concern these days with foreign bad actors interfering with other countries’ elections.
Users already have two options:
Turn off forum access.
Contact us about changing their user name to something that meets the guidelines such as first name, last initial.
No it does not (we don’t want to remove all posts by default and leave a hole) - but we will remove all posts if requested.
Hi Dave. I understand your concern. There are certainly exceptions to the rule for good reasons and it sounds like you both understand where we are coming from but also need an exception to be made.
Please contact customer service and they will help you get your forum name changed. You can contact them at custserv@xojo.com .
Few seem to understand what the forum and community would be like if many used user-chosen names. It would quickly feel like strangers talking to other strangers on the Internet and that often ends badly.
Our original forum was that way and I almost never read any messages on it for that reason.
While I understand the desire for anonymity, it’s usually incompatible with civility. I wish that were not true. I wish people had the character to do the right thing when no one is watching. Unfortuna…
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